Helen Haines the 'MP we all wish we had' says David Pocock – video
Independent ACT senator David Pocock says Helen Haines is 'the MP we all wish we had', telling the National Press Club in Canberra that working with her is one of 'the great privileges of serving in our parliament'. 'You [Haines] make our politics in this country better. That someone would deliberately hurt you, I find unfathomable,' Pocock said before the press club
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